“When people talk about gender-affirming surgery using words like “mutilation,” that’s not very nice. Is that how you think about people who’ve had surgery for other things? It’s a disgust reaction, and I do not take disgust into account as a legitimate point of discourse. I don’t have to entertain it and I’m not going to. It’s a waste of everybody’s time, it’s knee-jerk, it’s not grounded in reality, and it’s not useful. And it’s a squeamishness about medical intervention. I think the idea of making legislative or cultural decisions in and around [that] is laughable. Your squeamishness is not what the world turns on; it doesn’t matter.”
Liv Hewson in Teen Vogue (italics added by me for emphasis)
was walking around downtown for a job interview and saw a young couple holding hands and then when exiting the job interview I saw a strikingly similar looking middle-aged/older couple walking around holding hands… intriguing
banger after banger in the replies
[ID: Two images containing a total of five replies. l-cereta’s reply reads: “date on the beach that makes you old”. weaver-z’s reply reads: “I’m on the beach that makes you try to make the joke that someone in the comments already made”. wotsukai’s reply reads: “two lovers entwined pass me by and heaven knows i’m miserable now i was looking for a job and then two older lovers entwined passed me by and heaven knows i’m ??? now”. voluspo’s reply reads: “job interview that takes 30 years”. ibuprofengirl’s reply reads: “was the interview for a position of time travel test subject”.]
I had to make some choices to get down to ten options.
If you feel very strongly about your choice only applying to a sub genre, or you think I’ve left out what is clearly the best genre, lmk in the replies or tags.
Send me a character and i’ll tell you at least two characters I ship them with
happy 9 year anniversary to the only post i ever made that had this kind of reach - unfortunately that reach also resulted in years of strangers sending me messages with random characters from shows i’ve never watched (it could be worse)
I honestly think that the lack of non-sexual nudity in public spaces has done horrific damage to American society.
We deeply struggle to understand the natural diversity of bodies because we only see naked bodies in a sexual context. We are taught that seeing nudity is somehow inherently harmful, especially to children. We struggle to differentiate between sexually suggestive and sexually explicit material.
It fucks up the way people think about and talk about sex ed. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about breast feeding. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about queer folks. It feeds into fatphobia and ableism and is all rooted in this deeply harmful puritanism.
Like, I need people to understand that seeing a bare titty in public is not going to hurt a child. Seeing a man in a banana hammock isn’t inherently traumatizing. I would argue, in fact, that adults treating those things as dangerous and gross and scary is going to do way more damage to a kid’s psychology than seeing the nudity in the first place.
These type of additions are vexing. Ostensibly supportive but can’t help but make sure you know they’re also Weird about nudity by making it about consent, doubling down on the idea that there’s no such thing as nonsexual nudity, it’s an action that willing partners need to consent to first. Does the breastfeeding parent need my consent to feed their child? When you see someone wearing practically see-through yoga pants, is your thought that they should have asked your consent before going outside? this is an exact example of how it fucks up the way you think, that you could read all of op and instinctually start thinking in the language of sexual assault, as if this post was about flashers
nooooooo why is this so fucking cute 😭 coach would loudly say stuff like “huh, this ball sure is heavier than I’m used to! wonder how far it’d go!” and pretend he’s gonna throw bitty to his uncles and bitty kicks his tiny legs and fists and scream-laughs while suzanne either lovingly rolls her eyes or plays along
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